We're coming close to a new election year and many people are outraged by the way our nation has been running. There is a massive divide between a Christian nation, and everyone else. Many think we need more of God in our government, too many some say. Many think that the founders of our country were right and that religion should have no place in politics.
It's my belief that Christians, moreover, Christian Republicans have set our country on a path of self-destruction. With foreign affairs at their worst and the most unmoral of decisions being made by our government in the name of religion instead of progress, what justifies these actions? Why isn't anyone holding them accountable? Is it because over 70% of Americans are Christian?
Can anyone give a justifiable reason why something as tainted and wrong as American politics should involve religion? Or do you think it is overly religious people like Bush that have tainted our government?
2007-10-21 04:13:44 · 7 answers · asked by computerqfl 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
I should add, this isn't about Christians as a faith or people. It's about Christian extremists such as the extreme evangelists in the bible belt, like where so many of our congress come from. I would ask the same if it were any religion in such hard control over government. This is about our leaders making their decisions based on religious views and not of conscience. I'm hoping for answers from those who support the view of religion being involved in government.
2007-10-21 04:44:33 · update #1
There's nothing inherently wrong with Christian beliefs, but I agree that they have no place in the government. Our forefathers could see the dangers of this mix and warned against it.
What the Christians need to do is to stop taking what politicians say to win them over at face value. They need to actually pay attention to the person's actions. They maybe surprised to see that most of them aren't exactly "Christ like"!
These politicians massage the religious masses with their holier than thou rhetoric, then break every commandment once in power. An incredible example is the very influential Haggard, the head of the evangelical right, who preached about homosexuals being the devil... Well he not only committed adultery, but he did so with male prostitutes while he was also using meth!!!
2007-10-21 04:30:19 · answer #1 · answered by TJTB 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The founders DID NOT say religion had no place in politics. This is a common misconception.
What they DID do was to enshrine in law that "Congress shall make no law respecting establishment of religion " right there in the Constitution for all eyes to see.
Politics and policy are not always one and the same.
Politicians ALWAYS panders to certain voting blocks religious and non-religious alike.
It is not Christian Republicans who set our country on this path. That is left-wing propaganda. Most of the peolle making policy are not overly religious and some of the neo-cons are not even Christians.
The people who are sending our great nation into destruction are IDIOTS who somehow got Christians to VOTE for them.
Yes 70% percent of Americans being Christian and the heavy involvement of religious voters has some influence but voting blocks can be made up of many different types of groups .
Perhaps you should start a secular movement to counter their influence . There are plenty of people who would agree with your stance. That I believe would be the American thing to do.
2007-10-21 07:39:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The United States has always been a Christian nation. The Colonies in the new world were settled by Puritans from England. Later they were the Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, Lutherans, Calvinists and Quakers and Mennonites from Germany. The founding fathers of the United States were Christian and left their mark in the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation and the Constitution. It was Christians activists that comprised the abolitionist movement.
They were wise enough to prohibit the Establishment of a national church but they were Christian nonetheless.
I am not a christian but be we owe the freedoms of this nation to Christians and their faith.
As this country has been more secular, less religious and placed more value on materialism families have fallen apart, crime and moral decay has sky rocketed.
This country is indeed a deep trouble but you cannot blame Christianity for it. The founding Christians left us a great legacy. It is the modern secularists that have f*&ked it up.
2007-10-21 04:28:05 · answer #3 · answered by Philip L 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Christianity is founded on Judaism. The 10 Commandments were given to the Israelites. We should not speak of a "Christian" country. At the very least, we are a nation founded on "Judeo-Christian" ideals, but we've gone too far. Our founders set us up as a secular, not a Christian nation. Many of them were atheists, really, but they were also moral people. We are currently at war because of religious fanatics. What's next? Americans fighting each other over so-called Christian v Secular beliefs?
2007-10-21 05:37:46 · answer #4 · answered by Elaine P...is for Poetry 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No.
Saying that, I believe that the US was founded by men of christian caracter and beliefs that gave the world a system that is at its best caring, generous, and christian in caracter.
Not a country governed or that is ruled by some kind of religious High Muckiemuck like Iran of Vatican City.
2007-10-21 05:04:32 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
NO. A democratic country shouldn't be governed by a religious party, it will heart the basic idea and kill secularism.
2007-10-21 04:30:25 · answer #6 · answered by champabhilai 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes
2007-10-21 13:25:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋